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dc.contributor.authorMcHaffie, M.W
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-20T09:21:06Z
dc.date.available2023-03-20T09:21:06Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.date.submitted2023-03-17T15:19:26Z
dc.identifierONIX_20230317_9783031145179_3
dc.identifierhttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/61838
dc.identifier.urihttps://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/98561
dc.description.abstractThis open access book examines warranty obligations in western France during the central Middle Ages. Warranty refers to the commitments that an individual undertook when alienating property to protect the transfer from outside challenge, and to provide compensation if they failed to defend a transaction successfully. The subject has never received a full-length study before, meaning that scholars’ interpretation of warranty is marred by a number of untested generalisations. Warranty has generally only been viewed as a thirteenth-century development owing to the influence of Roman law and changes in family structure. This book, therefore, considers the evidence for warranty in western France en masse, starting with the first appearance of warranty clauses in documents in the 1040s up until the compilation of vernacular lawbooks in the 1270s. This book opens a window onto legal practice in the central Middle Ages, raising questions about wider processes of legal change. It emphasises the importance of lordship, in particular, when it comes to making sense of how and why warranty obligations developed the way they did. It thus challenges the prevailing explanatory narratives invoked by scholars when discussing warranty, and invites us to ask questions about the sorts of stories we tell when looking at legal change. Combining documentary and prescriptive lawbooks, along with a rich corpus of case material, this book offers a comprehensive account of a little-studied phenomenon, one that can elucidate much larger interpretative questions that are central to French legal history.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.rightsopen access
dc.subject.othercharters
dc.subject.otherCoutumes d'Anjou et Maine
dc.subject.otherlitigation
dc.subject.otherland
dc.subject.otherinsurance
dc.subject.othertenants
dc.subject.otherfeudalism
dc.subject.otherlordship
dc.subject.otherthema EDItEUR::L Law::LA Jurisprudence and general issues::LAZ Legal history
dc.subject.otherthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history
dc.subject.otherthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural history
dc.titleWarranty Obligations in Western France, 1040–1270
dc.title.alternativeLaw, Custom, and Lordship
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.1007/978-3-031-14517-9
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy9fa3421d-f917-4153-b9ab-fc337c396b5a
oapen.relation.isFundedByH2020 European Research Council
oapen.relation.isFundedBy178e65b9-dd53-4922-b85c-0aaa74fce079
oapen.relation.isbn9783031145179
oapen.collectionEuropean Research Council (ERC)
oapen.imprintPalgrave Macmillan
oapen.pages132
oapen.place.publicationCham
oapen.grant.number740611
dc.relationisFundedBy178e65b9-dd53-4922-b85c-0aaa74fce079


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